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What are Essential Oils?
Essential oils are highly concentrated volatile aromatic substances
extracted by distillation or expression from a single plant
part. For example, the petals of the rose and jasmine, the leaves
of the rosemary bush, the wood of the sandalwood, the rind of
the lemon and orange. These oils are often referred to as the
hormones or life force of the plant. An essential oil used in
Aromatherapy has nothing added either during or after the process.
Hence it is 100% pure Essential oil.
Each Essential Oil has distinct and different powerful therapeutic
properties, both medicinally and emotionally. It is these properties
which are vital to the healing modality of Aromatherapy.
Essential Oils are presented with restricted flow inserts for
accurate drop dosage, easy to read instructions for use and
cautions, therapeutic actions for all products, and packaged
in a box to protect from harmful sunlight.
How
Essential Oils Work
Essential oils enter the body and have their effect by two
routes, the nose and the skin.
How do you feel when you smell the sweet
scent of a garden? Do you open up your lungs and take a deep
breath? When you enter a hospital or sick room, does your breathing
become shallower? Does the whiff of a long forgotten scent bring
back sensations and feelings from the past? The sense of smell
has profound effect, influencing us even when we are not necessarily
aware. When inhaling the oils, tiny
particles are taken to the roof the nose where the olfactory
system is located. Here the cilia (thin hairs) transmit information
to the olfactory bulb that is situated behind the eyes. Smell
signals are then decoded and sent on throughout the body.
It is now a scientifically acknowledged
fact that toxic material can penetrate the skin and enter
the bloodstream. This is a sad fact in this modern society.
However, it is also a fact that essential oils have this same
ability. Particularly when blended with a carrier oil. The
essential oils have a tiny molecular structure, which is minute
enough to permeate the skin via the hair follicles and pores.
From there the molecules are carried through the bloodstream
via tiny -carrying capillaries.
In this commercial and polluted world, essential
oils offer a and cost-effective way to use remedies which
have been in existence since ancient times, through the tools
supplied to you from Mother Nature herself. Most importantly,
they allow you to be in control of the substances you put
into and onto your own body.
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